information sharing in news
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Or worse: the cover for data leaks, inappropriate content-sharing or other nefarious or even criminal activities. The TUC argues staff need to be told when, why and how information is being obtained, and... [22 Oct 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News What will cause open source to succeed in the public sector is the squeeze on the money and the drive towards sharing more services and information. The UK government may have been slow to adopt open... [29 Sep 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News The social network has settled a year-old class action lawsuit that targeted its alleged failure to provide adequate information and privacy controls to users with regard to Beacon, which shared... [21 Sep 2009]
MoD tells British troops: Go forth and Twitter
News The statement says, "Current and emerging internet technologies, such as simple self-publishing, sharing of user-generated content, and social networking, are of growing importance to Service and MoD civilian personnel... [10 Aug 2009]
'Hack your own Oracle database' tool unveiled next week
News Gates is a member of the Metasploit project, an open source platform used for developing, testing, and using exploit code and sharing information related to finding vulnerabilities. Gates said he did not... [24 Jul 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News The £24.4m write-off on the Scope programme - a secure electronic comms network aimed at improving information sharing across 10 government departments and security and intelligence agencies - was... [17 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News The productivity gains that we can produce by improving sharing of services are massive," he said. MP Andrew Miller, chairman of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (Pitcom), supported... [29 Jun 2009]
SMEs on target list for UK cyber attack group
News Intelligence analysis technology company Detica, whose clients include the UK intelligence services and other government agencies, said that it expected knowledge sharing to be funded by both the public and private sectors. [29 Jun 2009]
'RFID in all new mobiles by next summer'
News Djuphammar said selling access to mobile user information in this way would open up new revenue streams in a "win win" scenario for all parties involved - the end user, the operator and the broker who manages the... [24 Jun 2009]
G-Cloud in the sky: The future home for gov't apps
News Steve Palmer, president of the association for public sector IT managers Socitm, said that the benefits of the G-Cloud would extend beyond savings to better collaboration and information sharing within... [17 Jun 2009]
Virgin file-sharers risking suspension
News Universal will use technology from the Danish anti-piracy firm DTecNet to scour file-sharing networks - not Virgin's own network - and log the IP addresses of "persistent" file-sharers, along with the time of the... [15 Jun 2009]
Is it 999 for emergency services comms?
News The communications network used by the emergency services - supplied by Airwave using Tetra technology - is primarily a voice network, so while it allows emergency services and other public safety agencies to talk to each other, data... [15 Jun 2009]
Windows 7 gets a better grip on power
News The company will be sharing energy-related data in an effort to resolve driver conflicts that prevent a PC from going into sleep mode. Francois Ajenstat, director of environmental sustainability at Microsoft, said: "Just... [15 Jun 2009]
Twitter? Not for me, thanks
News These range from "messing about" to promoting companies or sharing information. It appears silicon.com readers don't have a lot of time for microblogging at the moment. In the latest silicon.com poll,... [26 May 2009]
Europe votes for net-neutrality reforms
News Sarkozy's bill, which sought to let ISPs disconnect users suspected of illegal file-sharing, was narrowly defeated in the French parliament in April. Recognising internet access as a fundamental right, the Commission... [07 May 2009]
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